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We know by now not to be surprised when the automatic reaction of politicians at home and abroad to atrocities in which killers wreak as much destruction as possible upon crowds of unarmed citizens is to more strictly regulate guns. Living in a fantasy world in which the number of …

The holiday season is officially upon us and if you haven’t already started your Christmas shopping, you have probably—in the very least—started making a mental check of list of what you would like to buy. Giving the gift of firepower, especially to the gun enthusiast, is an excellent idea.  However, …

Our intrepid legal team, the American Freedom Law Center, which has successfully represented us in numerous free speech lawsuits, has won an important victory for freedom against Hamas-CAIR: “Federal Court Grants AFLC’s Motion to Dismiss CAIR Lawsuit against Florida Gun Store’s ‘Muslim Free Zone,’” American Freedom Law Center, November 24, …

Believe it or not, some citizens shoot better with a revolver than with a semi-auto pistol, and in the real world, slower hits are better than faster misses. It doesn’t matter whether one chooses a revolver because of a deep-seated bias or simply because the revolver seems safer. The concern …

A century ago, the stalemated trench warfare that had by then come to characterize the battlefield of the First World War came to the Northwestern shores of the Ottoman Empire. On April 25, 1915 a force of 78,000 allied troops began landing at the Dardanelles—the place where the Aegean Sea …

For some strange reason, the Mosin-Nagant rifle has become popular over the last few years.Maybe it’s because there has been thousands and thousands of them that have washed up on our shores, like flotsam and jetsam, since the end of the Cold War. Maybe it’s because people are watching and re-watching …

The AR-15-type rifle has become the sweetheart of American shooters and is said to be the most popular rifle sold today. The original AR platform is often called the AR-10 in reference to Eugene Stoner’s first .308 Win.-based design. But, it gets a bit more complicated when we use that …

Ten minutes doesn’t seem like a long time, does it? And yet it can be an eternity in a crisis. Survivors of the terror attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have described a scene of almost unthinkable horror: ISIS terrorists firing off bursts from their fully automatic firearms …

If you want to keep your right to keep and bear arms, you need to contact your congressman and U.S. senators now. Amid the horror and outrage over last week’s Paris terrorist attacks, on the pretext of stopping terrorism, New York Republican Congressman Pete King is pushing a scheme to …

Many armed robbers seem to think that liquor stores are easy marks for making some fast cash. But armed owners and clerks frequently turn the table on the bad guys, as seen in these six stories. When a man entered Lisa’s Beer and Wine with a gun around 9 p.m. …